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Residence Halls

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Transcript

Front: Shelia Tolbert, Bobbi
Herman, Unidentified, Vicky
Smith. Middle: Valerie Shankle.
Unidentified, Gretta Gorsie
Corinna Rodgers, Leslie Harris
Patricia Martinez. Back: Vianke
Esteves, Unidentified, Unidenti
fied, Tammy Smith, Donniese
Watkins, Maria Gutierrez.
Anticipation
Hour one
He said he'd call. Fifteen
minutes ago, that phone
should have been ringing.
He promised. In that letter
he wrote to me last month,
the one I got yesterday. (I
just love that OB
mailroom!) "I'll call," it
said, "Five o'clock, Easter
Sunday. Be there." Well,
Jack, I'm here. Where are
you?
I feel like such an idiot. Sitting here by the phone like
a good girlfriend, waiting
for my man to call. Where
was I during the Sexual
Revolution? In pampers. Is
this a valid excuse to act
like Phyllis Schafly? Next
I'll be accepting airmail
packages of dirty socks to
launder. What a ninny! It's
almost funny. He's over
half an hour late.
I got tired of waiting doing
Talking to someone familiar, even
without seeing his face, can be a
cure for homesickness. Unfortunately, when sharing a phone, it
can also be a sure road to strife.
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nothing, I decided to do
something constructive.
Study? No . . . write home?
No . . . Write Jack? Not
wise considering my current state of mind towards
him. So, I picked up my diary. It has now been forty-
five minutes. I'm such a
ninny!
Later. . .
My blood is boiling! He'd
better be dead. If he isn't,
he will be! What a rat!
What a jerk! What did I
ever see in him in the first
place? So what if he has
adorable brown eyes. So
does my dog. I stalk to the
dresser, grab the flowers
he wired me for Easter and
proceed to the bathroom.
Time to flush 'em, I say.
And after that, well, I hear
there's an ice cream special at McDonald's.
Wait a minute . . . what's
that noise? Who is she
talking to? I hear strange
voices coming from the adjoining suite . . . giggling,
Kevin Borgfeldt, Steven
Johnson, Doug Herbert,
Louis Lions, Gary Clark,
Michael McEwen, Arvin Alexander, Adil Keria, Vivek
Katyal, Cesar Rodriguez,
Andrew Light, James
Woodward, Shane Boyle,
William Bunch, Paul Conner, Thomas Francis, Lee
Ball, David Blaubette, Calvin Nankeruis, Maurice
Powell, Richard Manek,
Mark Malone, Sunil Chel-
lani, Travis Lacy, Bruce
Foster, Jack Neal, Shannon Ogden, Steven Nguyen,
James Gent, John Novak,
Michael Vulgarides, Chris-
tophe Ribet, Rick Salazar,
Ali Mahvidi, Jimmy Poep-
sez, Iman Haryadi.
but no one's telling any
jokes. Julie was all upset
that she was going to be
alone over Easter . . . her
roommate left and she was
stuck. Since I was at work
all weekend, she was griping about being lonely.
Now, who's in there?
Suddenly, a light bulb ignites itself over my head.
She's on the phone! Oh,
well, I'll just go over there
and ask her to get off the
phone. The doorknob
won't turn! That witch!
She's locked herself in!
She's using my phone!
What nerve! (Well, technically, I suppose it's her
phone, too, but at this
point, I don't care.) Silently, I apologize to my dear,
sweet boyfriend. My poor
darling. Not his fault. I
knew it couldn't be his
fault. The RA will let me
in. Then, I'll get my revenge!
— Elizabeth Hargis
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258 University of Houston
Residence Halls 259